GloRilla has been honored in her hometown of Memphis with a key to the city – and she received it on the perfect day.
Home to the 901 area code, Memphis celebrates ‘901 Day’ on September 1, which became the day Big Glo received her key to Bluff City.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young, rapper/songwriter Kia Shine and more were on hand to help celebrate the CMG rapper’s achievement.
Sharing photos of the day to Instagram, Glo said: “Memphis made me Frayser raised me [teary eyed emoji] I got da key to my cityyyyy ahhhhh [celebration emojis] Happy 901 day MEMPHIS!!!!!!”
In other news, GloRilla recently handled a budding controversy by listening and responding to criticism — and got a ton of praise in return.
The Memphis spitter shared a song snippet last week on social media, and her word choice in it caught some fans by surprise.
“Ho, you must not know what you started/ Me and my bitch retarded,” it begins.
Some fans, a few of whose responses were caught by The Neighborhood Talk, were disappointed in Glo’s use of the r-word, calling it “offensive,” “derogatory,” and a “slur.”
By the time Big Glo shared another teaser of the song, via an on-the-grid Instagram post, the offending word had been replaced with the phrase “go naughty.” You can view it for yourself here.
Comments on the revamped lyric were extremely positive.
“I love how you changed the R word out the song. I wasn’t offended but that’s real,” one person wrote.
“Awwww she changed the lyrics just in case it did hurt someone’s feelings [clapping hands emoji] [praise hands emoji],” another typed.
“Glad you changed it,” added a third.
GloRilla also recently addressed an ongoing narrative that she’s being sexualized by her label, CMG.
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The “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” rapper shared a video on Thursday (August 29), refuting the claims and explaining why she’s excited about showing off her body.
She began: “Y’all had so much to say because I previewed an [inaudible] I was dancing to my song holding my titties. Don’t worry about what me and my titties doing. Bitch, I bought em … Talking about some shit like, ‘Oh, the label is making GloRilla do this. Bitch, the label ain’t make me do shit. A hoe gonna be a hoe.”
“It ain’t about no label trying to make me do shit. It’s about me looking for some hoes,” she concluded with a laugh. “Y’all always thought, ‘They tryna oversexualize Glo like she was such a tomboy. Bitch, I was a tomboy when I had no titties. I got titties now.”
